American Cinematographer - January 2009 - (Page 59) Opposite: Brothers Tuvia and Zus Bielski (Daniel Craig, top, and Liev Schreiber) take to the forests of Belarus after their families are massacred by Nazis in Defiance. This page, left: Tuvia and his brothers help a growing number of Jews escape the Nazis. Below: Cinematographer Eduardo Serra, ASC, AFC on location in Lithuania. I Photos courtesy of Paramount Vantage. n February 2007, director Ed Zwick had dinner in Paris with two collaborators, production designer Dan Weil and director of photography Eduardo Serra, ASC, AFC. Both Serra and Weil are based in France, and both had worked with Zwick on Blood Diamond (2006). Weil recalls that over dinner, he and Serra asked Zwick about a project the director had discussed with them, a striking story about Jewish partisans during World War II. “Eduardo and I asked Ed, ‘Why don’t you do it?’” says Weil. “Six weeks later, I received the script for Defiance.” In an interview at his home in Paris, Serra shares his enthusiasm for the project, and for his dinner mates. “Working with Dan is formidable,” he says. “We are always talking. He never imposes anything; there is a real collaboration that I have rarely experienced.” The cinematographer also marvels at Zwick’s mastery of his métier. “Ed is a very remarkable person and I’ve never seen anyone like him — he can place six or seven cameras in seconds, knowing exactly how each will be used. I once told him I was amazed by his technical capacity as a director, and he said, ‘Remember, before my first film, I shot 200 hours of television.’” Defiance is the latest highprofile project for Serra, a Portuguese-born cinematographer who is sought out by directors on both sides of the Atlantic. He has earned two Academy Award nominations, for The Wings of the Dove (AC June ’98) and Girl With a Pearl Earring (AC Jan. ’04), and a shelf in his home is heavy with other awards, including two Camerimage Frogs. Based on the book by American Cinematographer 59
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